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• VT Halter Marine is awarded Build T-AGS-60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship

     VT Halter Marine Inc (VT Halter Marine), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), announced today that it has been awarded a contract of approximately $87 million to build an enhanced version of a T-AGS 60 Class oceanographic survey ship for the U.S.

• Deadly Explosion at VT Halter Marine

    Three die in tugboat explosion Read at Fatal explosion at VT Halter Marine

• Marine Subsea will take delivery of OCV

    VT Halter Marine’s parent, VT Systems, has offered $21 million cash for Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co.’s Mobile shipyard, making it the “stalking horse” in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction process.

• HLCV BOREALIS Hull started in Nantong

     Nordic Heavy Lift ASA (NHL) is pleased to announce that the hull of the HLCV BOREALIS was launched on 19th October 2009 and is now safely afloat alongside the Nantong Yahua Shipyard in Nantong, China. The construction contract for the hull including major part of the pipe work was sublet by

• Crowley Christens New Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB) Tank Vessel

     Crowley Maritime Corporation christened the seventh of 10 new 185,000-barrel Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB) tank vessels that the company will take delivery of in 2010 and 2011. The vessels christened were the tug Pride and barge 650-7.

• TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke launches 3,400-TEU container ship

    At 11.00 hrs on December 11, the last newbuilding of a series of 3,400 TEU container ships entered the waters at the Emden-based TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke – a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. This technical launch took place nine months after the laying down of the first double-bottom

• Sungdong celebrates $ 200m Japanese bulker much

    Sungdong Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering is celebrating a $200m order from Japan for four bulk carriers.

• Venezuela s oil by 25 cents to 65.47 USD

    The Venezuelan oil basket slightly increased during the week to average USD 65.47 per barrel, amid a drain of US oil inventories and optimism about the economy, said Friday the Ministry of Energy. The local crude oil gained USD 0,25 per barrel between September 14 and 18, compared to USD 65.22

• Start of a 3,400-TEU container ship at TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke in Emden

     At 11.00 hrs on December 11, the last newbuilding of a series of 3,400 TEU container ships entered the waters at the Emden-based TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke – a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. This technical launch took place nine months after the laying down of the first

• IHC launches heavy-duty carrier vessel Oleg Strashnov

     IHC Merwede is proud to announce that the launching of the Heavy Lift Vessel for Seaway Heavy Lifting took place on Saturday 22 August 2009, at the IHC Merwede Offshore & Marine facility in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the NetherlandsWith its 5,000MT crane capacity the vessel is the largest mono

• Oil below $ 80 easier in Asian trade

    World oil prices remained below $80 a barrel mark for the third day in succession on Monday mainly on profit taking by investors. Light sweet crude for December delivery was seen trading at $79.77 a barrel t 12.00 noon Singapore time while Brent crude was at $78.41 a barrel at

• Bulk Carrier Queen Kobe started

     Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation today launched the Queen Kobe bulk carrier for San-E Maritime Corporation at its Kobe Shipyard. The carrier, identified as Kawasaki hull No. 1617 and the 28th 55,100DWT bulk carrier developed by Kawasaki Shipbuilding, will be delivered in October 2009 after outfitting at the quay of the Shipyard. The

• VLG scrutinizes Baltija Shipyard

    The Lithuanian shipbuilder Western Shipyard (VLG), owned by the BLRT Group in Estonia, is considering the acquisition of the Baltija Shipyard although VLG’s boss Arnoldas Sileika said that any statements on the acquisition were premature. Sileika said that Klaipeda-based VLC would wait until AP Moller-Maersk officially announces the sale of the

• Oil makes less than 83 dollars in Asian trade

    Global oil prices eased below $83 a barrel in early Asian trade Thursday after an overnight surge.

• The Allure of the Seas, launched in Turku shipyard

     The Allure of the Seas, the second Oasis class vessel under construction at STX Finland’s Turku Shipyard, reached its natural element today, 20 November, 2009 as the valves of the dry dock were turned on and the vessel was launched. The Allure of the Seas is the second in a